Quotes About Heritage

He was old enough to know that it was not truly him they shouted for—it was the harvest they cheered, it was Robb and his victories, it was his lord father and his grandfather and all the Starks going back eight thousand years.

I am blood of the dragon, she told herself. I am Daenerys Stormborn, Princess of Dragonstone, of the blood and seed of Aegon the Conqueror.

We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads.

Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when we are gone.

I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, of the blood of Old Valyeria. I am the dragon's daughter.

blood runs truer than oaths.

There were times—not many, but a few—when Jon Snow was glad he was a bastard.

descendant of one of the First Families of Virginia. He held that the only way to tell the pure whites from the imitation whites, was to study their family trees. He claimed that such a nationwide investigation would disclose the various non-Nordic strains in the population. Laws, said he, should then be passed forbidding these strains from mixing or marrying with the pure strains that had produced such fine specimens of mankind as Mr. Snobbcraft and himself.

he claimed, that there must be as many as twenty million people in the United States who possessed some slight non-Nordic strain and were thus unfit for both citizenship and procreation.

The Negroes have disappeared into the body of our citizenry, large numbers have intermarried with the whites and the offspring of these marriages are appearing in increasing numbers.

The South had always been identified with the Negro, and vice versa,

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.

Wherever I travel Greece wounds me.

When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.

A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.

We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty.

L'honneur d'un peuple appartient aux morts et les vivants n'en ont que l'usufruit

Es el hombre vivo lo que hay que buscar bajo el polvo de los archivos y en el silencio de los museos.

We perhaps come from something more than from someone.

Es uz kapu vainagiem skatos ?oti nopietni, - Larijs aizr?d?ja. - Amerik? tos Ziemassv?tkos karina uz durv?m. Pie?emu, ka t?p?c, lai atg?din?tu - cik labi, ka v?l neesam zem tiem.

There are only three things that America will be remembered for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution, Jazz music, and Baseball. These are the 3 most beautiful things this culture's ever created.

My mother's mother's family moved north from Mexico after having migrated from Spain, from Portugal, from Ireland, and likely from an Indian village somewhere.

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.